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2018/05/26

Highlights of the Knight - sWord Fight Promo (May 11, 2018)

Click Read More to read the transcript of the video.Azriel: I'm Azriel Johnson, founder and director of writing knightsas many of you know I've been looking for a way to make the poetry scene more vibrant and more appealing to the casual observerI think I've finally come up with a way to blow the roof off of the poetry scene

(music)

Azriel: Uh oh

Skylark: you're going to need more volume

Daria: I have this on full blast and it's not loud enough.We're going to have to work on this budget okay, this is not going to be enough for the soundyou do realize mardi gras was in february

Azriel: I forgot, I'm not even catholic

Daria: So, you're going to introduce me right?

Azriel: Yeah, everyone welcome Daria Quinn

Daria: So, you know this whole blow the roof off of the poetry thing, see for a long time now, we've had a hard time with the attendance, we've got what, 12 people here? this is actually good for one of these shows and we've got to do something about it. Who better to do something about this than me, Daria Quinn, Writing Knight, queer feminist, all around creative genius.

Daria: You wanna come up here and say poetry's just fine, maybe you should prove it

JM: Let me draw youa Venn Diagram:This circle represents the sum total of my beeswax. It’s solid, most of it. Some of it, not so much.All of it is mine.This circle,way over here,is your beeswax.Notice how the circles do not overlap.We are not beeswax partners.We are not in beeswax together. We are not even in the same beeswax separately.Yours is your own.Mine is mine.So why are you all up in my beeswax? Got your nose tilted up in the airlooking down on my beeswax?I did not invite you to poke, sniff, lickor otherwise analyze my beeswax.I don’t crowdsource my beeswax criticism.But as long as we’re talking shop,lemmie say this:I handle my beeswax. My honey is golden and sweet.My hive is healthy. You need not worry about me.My beeswax is good. You, on the other hand. I can see from here your honey is dim and almost burnt orange.Your hive is on the brink of colony collapse. You should worrybecause none of that is good for beeswax. I would suggest you take preventive measuresIn short, mind your own,tend your garden, as they say. But I won’t meddle any further.As I said before,my beeswax is none of yours.

Daria: There used to be a heart in hereWhen words were said they held their meaningNowadays words fall like rainNothing is said and no one's listeningThey're all too busy chasing miley or bitching about Kanye WestThey never take time to notice that art is dead and we all killed itWe used to create works of passionSongs and pictures that convey feelingsI can't believe we have fully lost thatBut I don't believe that art is dead

Azriel: Let's give it up for Daria Quinn and JM Romig.So that was a preview of what we're going to try to do. Writing Knights on July 13th will present their first sWord Fight.